feinicks Wrote:When you consider that it is Vista's successor, then that itself is a hype. People loved (still love) Vista for its interface. 7 has taken that a step further by offering better performance.

Not particularly - I don't recall so much hype about Vista really.

feinicks Wrote:Also, though no one here is doing it, it is unfare to compare 7 to XP. XP is old. 7's true potential will be realised once the core count goes beyond 6 core (which are supposedly to arrive by year end).

Win7 is keeping kernel modifications to a minimum as MS plans to keep driver compatibility with Vista.
Old means absolutely nothing really.  I can name plenty of old products which work far better than newer ones.  But I'm not here to debate about Win7 vs XP - that's your choice :P